Anti-gay attack?

September 13, 2007

A former contestant on Season 2 of Bravo's "Top Chef" was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said. Josie Smith-Malave was among a small group of women who were asked to leave a Sea Cliff, N.Y., bar over Labor Day weekend, lawyer Yetta Kurland said Tuesday. About 10 young people followed the women and began screaming anti-gay epithets, spitting on them and then beating them, Kurland said.